NY Daily News - November 9, 2009
By Heidi Evans

First, the Yankees cleaned up on the Phillies - now Bette Midler wants the world champs to pick up the the tab to clean the 2 miles of a dirty Bronx highway outside their shiny new Stadium.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Don Evans and Henrik Krogius

Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and revitalizing parks, community gardens and public spaces in New York City, opened Brooklyn’s redesigned Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Garden to the public Thursday.

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Architectural Digest
By Jamaica Kincaid

Sentiment (A sweet sadness, a delightful longing) is a not-so-secret ingredient in the garden, and why is that? Perhaps it’s because for so long now we have regarded the garden as our first home, a holy one at that, the home we were asked to leave without coming to know it thoroughly.

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Bloomberg – June 25, 2009
By James Russell

Four-time Grammy winner and self-confessed glitz queen Bette Midler enters an East Harlem lot at her characteristic hip-swaying march, swapping the outside pink feather headdress of her Las Vegas show for gardening gloves.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – May 29, 2009
By Sarah Tobol

As it turns out, not all of Thomas Jefferson’s seeds are controversial. Tomorrow, one Brooklyn community gardener will take home squash seeds descended from a squash Jefferson planted in the 1800s, as part of the Vegetable Starts Seed Giveaway held by the New York Restoration Project (NYRP).

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